Device for electrically lighting or extinguishing gas-jets.



No. 629,803. Patented Aug. l, I899. 0. VON m0RsTEm. DEVICE FOR ELECTRICALLY LIGHTING 0R EXTINGUISHING GAS JETS.

(Application filed Feb. 17, 1896.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR VON MORSTEIN, OF SCHOENBERG, GERMANY.

DEVICE FOR ELECTRICALLY LIGHTING 0R EXTINGUISHING GAS-JETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,803, dated August 1, 1899.

Application filed February 17, 1896. serial No. 579,635. (No model.)

To an whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR VON Monsrnrn, a subject of the King of Prussia, German Emperor, and a resident of the village of Schoenberg, near the city of Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, have invented a certain new and useful Device for Electrically Lighting and Extinguishing any Desirable Number of Gas-Jets, (for which I have obtained a patent in Germany, No. 83,344, bearing date June 1, 1894; in Belgium, No. 114,459, bearing date March 5, 1895; in Great Britain, No. 4,670, bearing date March 5, 1895, and in France, No. 245,554, bearing date March 5, 1895;) and I do hereby declare that the fol lowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a device for electrically lighting and extinguishing any desirable number of gas-jets simultaneously from a distance.

The invention has for its object to provide means for lighting and extinguishing any desirable number of gas-jets simultaneously with the use of only one conductor and one contact. This object is attained, mainly, by means of an electromagnetic gas-pipe-closure opener common to all the gas-jets and which may be applied at any part of the common gas-pipe and of a spark-inductor in which are produced the secondary currents requisite for the ignition of the gas-jets.

The device of the invention is illustrated diagrammatically in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is an elevation of the device with the primary bobbin of the inductor connected with the opening-electromagnet in series; Fig. 2, an elevation with the primary bobbin of the inductor connected with the openingelectromagnet in parallel. Figs. 3 and 3" show a modification of the movable pipe-closing part, the latter shown in different positions for thesupplementary cutting out of the opening-electromagnet. Figs. 4 and 4 show in diiterent positions a further modification of the movable gas-pipe-closing part for the supplementary cutting out of the openingelectroniagnet in conjunction with the supplementary connection of the primary bobbin of the inductor. Fig. 5 is an elevation of the device with a secondary bobbin consisting of a number of a small bobbins. Figs. 6 and 6* show in different positions the circuitbreaking arrangementin which the secondary bobbin is distributed on several primary bobbins.

R is the gas-supply pipe, which may serve as the conductor both for the battery-current intimate connection with each other, both being set in action by the same battery-current, the same conductor, and the same contact. The same current, namely, which excites the opening-electromagnet E produces in the secondary bobbin S the secondary currents required for the ignition of the gas-jets by means of springing sparks. This may be accomplished so that the primary bobbin P of the inductorI, with the opening-electromagnet IE, will appear as connected in series or in parallel, Figs, 1 and 2. In Fig. 2 the circuitbreaking arrangement a b is applied to the inductor I and in Fig. 1 to the opening-electromagnet E in such manner that after opening the cock H by the attraction of the armature A and turning of said cock by the arma ture coming against the stud 5 said armature in being further attracted, Fig. 1, lifts oft the spring contact-piece a from the firm contactpiece b, and in this way short vibrations and current interruptions are produced.

In order not to weaken the induction action of the primary bobbin P by a high resistance in the primarycurrent circuit, as is the case in Figs. 1 and 2, the, displacement of the movable closing part for example, the plug H of a cockmay be utilized for automatically placing out of circuit the opening-electromagnet E after the opening of the pipe-closure has been accomplished, so that then the battery-current either wholly or for the greater part passes through the primary bobbin P of the inductor, Figs. 3 and 3 To this end a contact-piece his provided on the movable part of the gas-pipe closure, say thecock H,

which contact-piece comes in contact with the spring e,leading to the electromagnetE, when the cock is fully opened. 01": the two bobbins E and P, previously connected in series, E is then short-oirelated-that is to say, out outand the current passes through P only. Still further and in the same way the primarybobbin P of the inductor I may, after the cock has been opened, be automatically placed in the circuit, Figs. i and t In this arrange ment the two bobbins E P are situated in parallel circuits and each bobbin is in connection on the one hand with a contact-piece c and on the otherhand with a contact-piece 1). First the contact-surface 71 of the pipeclosure II comes in contact with c, so that the electromagnet E, with the circuit closed, opens the cock H. Then, however, the 0011- tact between it and c ceases and it comes in contact withp, so that the current then passes through P only.

As the secondary currents for the ignition of a large number of gas-jets must have a comparatively high tension, and thereby, owing to the ditliculty of the insulated passage of the same to and especially at the burners, a limit would have to be drawn, it is ad vantageous to construct the secondary bobbin S in the form of a number of small bobbins S S each of low tension and used for the ignition of a small number of jets only. This may be accomplished by placing small bobbins over or against one another or by a corresponding division of the winding of large bobbins, Fig. 5. If the secondary bobbins are distributed upon several primary bobbins P P the current-interrupting arrangement may again. be designed so that the battery-current is conducted alternately through two groups of the primary bobbins. Figs. 6 and 6 show such a design of the current-interrupting arrangement in which the spring contact-piece a, after it has been drawn from the fixed contact-piece 1), comes against a third contact-piece c, and thus conducts through the bobbin P the current which is interrupted in the bobbin P. In a manner analogous to that here given for two primary bobbins the arrangement may also be employed for conducting the current alternately through the opening-electromagnet E and the primary bobbin.

The electromagnetic opening and shutting off of the gas-pipe R is eifccted in any one of the known ways. In Fig. 1 a second electio magnet Z forclosing the gas'pipe R is shown in dotted lines with a second conductor.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A device for electrically lighting and ex tinguishing any desirable number of gas-jets simultaneously consisting in a combination of an electromagnetic gasclosu re opener common to all the burners with a device for prod ucing secondary currents composed of a primary bobbin, a secondary bobbin and a circuit-breaker with condenser, with a contact device provided on the gas-closure opener arranged to, disconnect from the circuit the electromagnet of the gas-closure opener and at the same time increase the inductor-current, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I sign this specific-a tion in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

OSCAR VON MORS"EIN.

Witnesses:

W. HAUPT, Cims. H. DAY. 

